Unenumerated

The biggest problem we face with the frontier below that we're literally in the dark. We have a number of crude geophysical techniques...

Tyler Cowen posits that we are going through a Great Stagnation . Civilization has harvested the low hanging fruit of the internal combust...

Proof of the Pythagorean theorem: Dark matter: Chemical reactions, fire, and photosynthesis: How trains stay on their tracks and go through ...

Atomic clock on a chip for about $1,500. Accurate and independent clocks improve secure synchronous protocols , in other words can help se...

A number of my friends have gotten wrapped up in a movement dubbed "The Singularity." We now have a "Singularity Institute...

(h/t Andrew Chamberlain) For more on the economics at work here, see my essay Polynesians vs. Adam Smith .

Reader Matt comments on the Malthusian isocline here, , observing that I placed 17th century Britain a bit "higher" (presumably ...

Why did agricultural civilization remain mired in the Malthusian trap for over 5,000 years? And how was it possible to eventually escape ...

The oxygen crisis in the history of life is well known. When photosynthesis arose, cyanobacteria and later plants started dumping large am...

The Roman Empire was a military dictatorship. Its emperors came and went in a relentless spree of assassinations and civil wars ( example )...

(I recently rediscovered this old post of mine and thought it deserved re-posting). Paraphrasing Robin Hanson from a recent podcast: "...